Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.